Seymour’s Route 67 turning into pizza central

Published 4:01 pm, Tuesday, August 11, 2015

The opening of a a pizza restaurant and pub in Seymour last week provides local residents with a new casual-dining option. And it’s going to have plenty of company.

Local officials marked the opening of American Pie & Pub in the Klarides Village Shopping Center, where it will offer thin-crust pizza, wings and 24 beers on tap. It’s in the space once occupied by CVS. The Route 67 Family Diner and Balance Fitness have also opened in the plaza within the past year.

CVS left Klarides several years ago for a standalone location in the Oxmour Plaza on the Oxford-Seymour line. In that shopping center is the recently opened Pizzaro’s Pizzeria, which features wood-fired brick-oven pizza. The same family owns Roma’s Pizzeria in Ansonia.

Continuing up Route 67 in Oxford, work continues on the former Rolando’s restaurant at 143 Oxford Rd., which is to become the latest outpost for Pies & Pints. That restaurant, which has locations in Middlebury and Waterbury, serves lunch and dinner along with a wide array of beers. Interior renovations are ongoing.

When Pies & Pints opens, it will mean three new pizza options within a little more than a mile on Route 67.

Rolando’s served mostly Italian food, including pizza, and had an outdoor seating area overlooking the Little River. It was sold in 2013 and closed for about a month, reopening later that year with an overhauled menu and redesigned interior.

It closed suddenly last summer and was bought at a foreclosure auction in December by the proprietors of Pies & Pints.